monstergili
MonGili
30 UK 🇬🇧 // They/Them
Interested in Paleontology, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction and Worldbuilding 🌍 🛠
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new ceramic critter rattles now available at the Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery !
all set for a new home via local purchase or canadian / international shipping! other previous work also available at the gallery :) 🌷
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A ceramic sculpture and rattle of a nubby horned, giraffe-necked standing creature. Pale blue stripes against a black body run down from face to torso, breaking down into spots by its legs. A white belly and throat give way to large, alert eyes. The second ceramic sculpture and rattle is of a standing rhinoceros. The folds and bumps of its black skin are lined in red. Thin strands of nichrome wire is placed at the tips of the ears and throat give a hint at the appearance of a sumatran rhino. It also shares the quality of attentive eyes like the previous sculpture.
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Visions afoot
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Result from the Pebas formation #paleostream!
Not as diverse as some other places he have hit and yet, we weren't even able to put in all the crocs.
#PaleoArt#Pebas#Pebas Mega Wetland#Pebas Formation#Purussaurus#Miocene#Peru#Dolphin#River Dolphin#Crocodile#Caiman#Paleontology#Art
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pterosaurs!
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flocking time
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fantasy characters: “Geez”
me: who the fuck spread Christianity there
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Seer of Spring, Fortune's Spyglass and The Bathyal Oracle ✨️ These 5" enchanted eye jesters will be available this Friday in my secret patreon shop (April 19th, at 21:00 GMT, worldwide shipping from Ireland, paypal only, prices in my tags!)
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Playing with some ideas mostly regarding gender/reproduction in RW, and slugcat colonies.
Full transcript under the cut!
Creatures in Rain World are typically simultaneous hermaphrodites but require partners to reproduce, with either individual capable of being a genetic donor or carrier. Alongside what we are familiar with, this has lead to interesting reproductive strategies such as rotating donor/carrier roles, or dual/simultaneous genetic swaps.
Rotating donor/carrier roles - A K-selection reproductive strategy. One partner carries the first child, the other partner carries the next child, and so forth. Allows each partner to recover from the demands of childbearing.
Rain Deer aren't quite monogamous, but they tend to choose the same breeding partner whenever mating season rolls around. They serve as a donor one season, then bear and raise a child the next. Calves are raised away from the rain and worm grass, in places that have less food but more safety. Calf wool is softer, not yet gunked up by the dirty rainfall. Their legs are sturdier as children, allowing them to run for cover while the parent wards off threats.
Dual/simultaneous genetic swap - An r-selection reproductive strategy. Parents fulfill the donor and carrier role for each other. The more children you make, the more likely some are to survive!
Multiple batflies lay thousands of eggs in a single "blue fruit." Several eggs congeal and become nutrient paste for the surviving eggs (and for hungry slugcats). Like some plant seeds, batfly eggs that are consumed before pupating can survive passing through the digestive system. Ew.
Ancients also fell under this umbrella. Their genders (and the genders of iterators by extension, who have no sex anyways) could have been determined by a variety of other factors, such as societal role, donor/carrier preference, or simply different categorizations of personal expression.
It's difficult to say how well their common pronouns would translate to ours, but it seems they can translate to an extent, given what Moon and Pebbles use canonically.
Slugcats, like real slugs, can have children with a partner or self-fertilize. Unlike real slugs, they are often known to adopt.
In the case of self-fertilization: children who are born from one parent may display a large amount of genetic diversity despite the circumstances. Maybe slugcats have some sort of... genetic reservoir independent of their own genetic code?
Slugcats live 20-30 years on average... if they manage to reach adulthood. Their mortality rate is sadly rather high, especially in pups. If they were to develop as a civilization, it's likely their lifespan would increase dramatically.
Slugcats in a colony are more likely to have more children, and to successfully rear those children to adulthood, than those who wander alone or in small groups. The safety and stability of a colony cannot be understated.
Colonies either have a set, cycling migration path, or wander continuously. Survivor and Monk's tree home was a nesting site that their colony frequents about once a year. So it's likely that they'll see their family again!
...also, the strength of large colonies are why scavengers are likely to become the dominant species. In the time of Saint's era, continuous migration has become more of a risk, and it has become more difficult to support large populations. Slugcat populations have shrunk back to the more forgiving equatorial zones.
Saint's tongue is pretty unusual and probably unique to them, or to a small population that they hail from. Fur (of varying thickness) is much more common.
Meanwhile, scavengers are bulkier and covered in thicker insulating fur. They:
have seemingly massive populations
have a burgeoning society (the existence of merchants, tolls, bartering, elites and leaders)
are adept at communicating (non-verbally)
manipulate their environment
can build structures (scavenger-made structures were a scrapped idea from Saint's campaign)
can create complex weapons and tools
may have agriculture behind the scenes (unsure if scout parties prioritize exploration or hunting)
I would wager on scavengers developing more quickly than slugcats, but it would be nice if there was a future where both could co-exist.
#Rain World#Worldbuilding#Headcanons#RW Spoilers#RW DP Spoilers#RWSaint Spoilers#Rain World Downpour#Rain World Downpour Spoilers#Rain World Spoilers#RW Scavengers#Fan Art#Fanart
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what if unicorns were the size of cats?
and they just… lived with us, in our homes?
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Coelacanth Butterfly Tea Bag from Ocean Tea
Blended herbal tea, butterfly pea, spearmint, lemongrass
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Just wanted to share the birg patch I embroidered on my hoodie! I feel like the fully completed photo dosent do it justice because some of the threads have swayed a bit since it’s been washed
#Ohhhh!#I love this!#Birgworld#I wanted to do something similar for my own worldbuilding projects#Just wearing my characters on shirts or hoodies#Embroidery#Speculative Fiction#Speculative Biology#Speculative Evolution#Xenobiology
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uh ohhh this might become a speculative evolution project
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My Medieval Illuminated Manuscript Palette Risograph Color Chart Print is now back in stock!
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*turns your rain world lizards into shrimps*
#Rain World#Rain World Downpour#Fanart#Fan Art#Rain World Lizards#RW Lizards#Speculative Evolution#Speculative Biology#This is honestly a cool take on the idea.#I mean...the slug cats are technically a mollusc of we take the name literally#So why not shrimp lizards?
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BRACELETS FOR PALESTINE
I have been working with one of my friends for a while now on setting up a fundraiser where the proceeds of her bracelet sales go to an organisation that brings aid to Palestine and with @fairuzfan and the Help Gaza Children doing fundraisers this week to get as much resources donated to North Gaza, I thought it would be the perfect time to start it 🤍
In order to get a Palestine flag coloured friendship bracelet please visit their ko-fi!!! After shipping costs, all of the proceeds made this week will be donated to Help Gaza Children. The minimum price is $15 USD, but you can pay more to donate more if you can!!!
Help Gaza Children donation link
Help Gaza Children info/notion link
We will be running this fundraiser until March 10!!!! After March 10th, 50% of all sales from her shop will be donated to Help Gaza Children until the end of the month.
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✨My Pokémon copic commissions✨
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#Pokemon#Art#Fan Art#Fanart#Sneasel#Hisuan Typhlosion#Suicune#Mimikyu#Traditional Art#Copic Markers#cosmicloak#Illustration
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